EXPEDITion Small-Room-Closet

Description: Yes. I have to admit. I love having lots of space too, but as my collegiate destiny decided, the sweetest flat share I found was at the same time the one with the smallest room. So I decided to move in with the nicest people and to see filling this room in the most beautiful and cheap way as the huge fun it was. Small, but oh so grand…

After searching and calculating I had this great moment with my best friend while standing in the Expedit-section at IKEA. It must’ve been somewhat like that: ‘Damn I love Expedit, why don’t they do a good closet that way?!’…(two people standing in front of Expedit turning their heads to the right) ‘Wait…why don’t we just…turn it to the right…’ ‘…put a clothes rail into it…’ ‘YEAH and some LED-lighting!’ ‘Yeah!’

And that’s how it started. I actually just build up the TV storage unit. Turned it to the right. Bought a clothes rail and the supports for it and put that one up (be careful with the drill, Expedit unfortunately is not the solid wood you might know from Ikea…haha.)

The last thing I did was sticking the DIODER LED-strips to the top.

What still needs to be done…or better: if you don’t want the left side of the closet to be brown(because it’s the actual bottom side)…is to paint this side in the closets color.

Additionally you can also place LANSA handles in the back to have some more space to hang things.

After 6 months of living in one room with my modified closet-tv-lighting-unit I’m a happy student with sweet flatshare-mates and my small, beautiful room.

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Jules Yap "I am Jules, the engine behind IKEAHackers and the one who keeps this site up and running. My mission is to capture all the wonderful, inspiring, clever hacks and ideas for our much loved IKEA items".

please, jules, can you add a wish-list-button? or an add-to-my-scketch-book-button? everytime i see sth that genius i wish i could remember it when i’ll need it. i’ll build it to go in my closet, when i know how to hack it

Jo, perhaps you can use Pinterest to pin the hacks you like onto your own board? They will be saved on Pinterest and you can refer to them anytime. And you can pin resources from other sites too so you’ll have an “online DIY file”. See mine here.

i’m not on pininterest but i’ll think about it, if that’s a kind of solution, thanks. the big issue is that now i will need to review all the ikeahacker from the beginning….for the rss, i always had some problem with it, and i’m not able to use it. maybe it’s me, maybe my software, maybe my aura, i don’t know.

Wow, thats neat. And I agree with prev anon, if you had kept original orientation, you could have had a longer clothes rail since your clothes here are not long, and for extra long dresses, you can probably put in a bygel toilet rollholder on the outer edge on top. But seriously, for 149 bucks, this is just too good and so many possibilities !!

As an entertainment center, the Expedit TV stand is not that attractive. As a closet, it looks great! Practical, too. By orienting it the normal way (rather than turning it 90 degrees) you could also use the component compartments that would go under the TV for shoe storage. Nice work with this hack.

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